"It's actually an animal protection organization!!!" Hearing Yamauchi's words, Boss Jia was shocked. Boss Jia had thought of many possibilities that could cause Pokemon sales to stagnate, but he never thought that there would be an animal protection organization.
Very quickly, Boss Jia found out the truth from Yamauchi and Minoru Arakawa.
It turned out that on the day of the game's release, many newspapers and television programs in the United States reported on an organization called People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA for short.
This organization published an open letter on the news media. According to the open letter, they believed that Pokemon was a game that cruelly tortured animals for fun.
They weren't just spouting nonsense. They even listed a lot of reasons as if they were telling the truth.
For example, in order to subdue Fairies, players had to fight with them.
Another example was that in order to increase the chances of subduing Fairies, players had to beat the Fairies until they were on the verge of death. This was inhumane physical abuse of the Fairies. And if he couldn't subdue the little fairy, he would kill the little fairy.
Another example was that players had to force Fairies to fight with other Fairies. Some Fairies of the same race and species would often kill their own companions.
Finally, and the most inhumane, was to cruelly trap Fairies who had already submitted to humans in a small Pokemon Ball. This Pokemon Ball was only the size of a fist, but it had to contain half a person's worth of Fairies. From this, one could see how inhumane the Fairies were in the Pokemon Ball.
At the end of the open letter, PETA defined Pokemon as a game that cruelly tortured animals for fun. They called on all compassionate people to boycott the Pokemon game.
This was especially true for parents who loved their children. They should never buy such a cruel animal killing game for their children. Otherwise, their children would be raised to become terrible people.
PETA was already very popular in the United States. It was the world's number one animal protection organization with 6 million members worldwide. Among them, 2 million were members in the United States. These advertisements were directly distributed to all members.
They also encouraged their members to advertise to non-members. They distributed flyers to passersby and advertised in newspapers and news media. In short, they used all kinds of methods.
The so-called lie was repeated three times and it became the truth. Moreover, PETA was very evil. Many parents could not help but think that Pokemon was really an animal abuse game. This led to them forbidding their children from buying Pokemon.
Looking at it this way, the quality of Pokemon was good enough to be able to sell 120,000 boxes in five days.
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"So it's these guys!" When Boss Jia learned about the whole situation, he also remembered a lot about this PETA.
After 2010, PETA became more and more huge. It had more than ten million members around the world. It was already the world's number one animal protection organization.
And this organization had done many famous things in the past.
Among them, the most commonly used were various kinds of street demonstrations. According to incomplete statistics, animal protection organizations organized more than a dozen different demonstrations around the world every day.
However, this was PETA's most restrained and polite way of doing things.
Sometimes, the members of these organizations would choose to rush into the restaurant, holding a sign saying "You're a murderer" and a skinned animal's corpse. They would constantly show it to the customers who were eating meat in the restaurant, causing these customers to have no choice but to leave in embarrassment.
Sometimes, they would rush into a supermarket and stand in a straight line to block the supermarket's meat sales area. This would prevent customers from buying meat products.
In addition, they also persuaded the world's major ice cream manufacturers to give up on using milk to make ice cream. The funny thing was, when the manufacturers asked what they should use to make ice cream if they didn't use milk, PETA directly said that they could use breast milk to make ice cream.
However, these weren't exciting enough. PETA also did other things. For example, they often put a few cages on the streets of downtown. Then, young women covered in blood red paint or ketchup would crawl into the cages wearing only one or two pieces of underwear. They would deliberately dress up as animals to show the suffering of the animals in the cages. This would arouse human sympathy and let the audience understand how painful it was for an animal to be locked up in a cage.
However, compared to their previous actions, these actions were more popular with the passers-by. People stopped to watch and expressed their condemnation of animal cruelty. Then, they took out their phones and cameras and started to take pictures.
Boss Jia was puzzled. Why did PETA lock up young women? Why didn't they lock up some strong men? Men and women were equal!
By the way, the stupid celebrities who launched the Hua Xia campaign and jumped out to tell people not to eat meat. They said that eating meat would harm the Amazon rainforest. This was also the organization's action.
There were many other similar actions, so I won't list them one by one. Although these actions were overly brainless, they were still done from the perspective of animal protection.
However, some of these actions were very nonsensical.
For example, what was happening now was that PETA advertised Pokemon as an animal abuse game. This was something that PETA did in the past.
However, it wasn't in 1993. It was in 2012, 19 years later. It was basically the same as what they said today.
Moreover, PETA didn't only target Pokemon. Later, they also pulled out Final Fantasy 15. They said that the fishing system was torturing poor fish and demanded that the game ban the fishing function.
The most recent one was the Animal Forest that was currently on fire. PETA published an open letter stating that the Animal Forest was suspected of serious animal cruelty.
For example, fishing was absolutely forbidden.
Also, the clams and hermit crabs on the beach were also alive and couldn't be caught. In addition, they couldn't build dog houses because dogs would suffer if they lived in a house. They had to be allowed to live freely.
Anyway, PETA criticized all the animal-related issues in the game. In the end, they said that everyone could only eat fruits and chat in the game every day. Otherwise, they wouldn't be protecting animals.
In summary, when Boss Jia found out that PETA was the one who was tormenting him behind the scenes, everything was understandable. Boss Jia wasn't surprised by what they would do.
However, there was one thing that was very strange.
As mentioned before, PETA only started to frequently scam games to attract attention in 2013. Before 2013, they had never made any comments about games.
What was happening in front of him had never happened before in history.
But why did they attack the game 20 years earlier? And why did they do it in such a big way? This was obviously abnormal.
"Mr. Yamanouchi, did Nintendo offend anyone in the United States?" Boss Jia suddenly asked.
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